Setup
The numbers
Thermal gradient
A real gradient, 30–32°C warm against 23–24°C cool, so the animal chooses. The sheet states no separate night figure.
Why
Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet stateswarm 30-32 °C / cool 23-24 °C
UVB
The sheet statesone 34" Arcadia T5 HO 6% or Zoo Med T5 HO ReptiSun 5.0 in a reflective T5 HO fixture; hung from the ceiling to be 13-14" above the basking spot
Traceable. The figures above appear in the page we cite, which we opened on 10 Aug 2026. That means you can check them, not that we have confirmed they are right. reptifiles.com
Enclosure and conditions
What your climate adds
This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.
What it needs
Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.
Food
Diet
Feeding rhythm
Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.
Why
The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.
The sheet statesomnivorous; Protein foods: crickets, earthworms, dubia roaches, freeze-dried shrimp/krill, frozen bloodworms, silkworms, snails, guppies, mollies, platies, mosquito fish; Vegetable foods: collard greens, dandelion greens + flowers, endive, green leaf lettuce, kale, red leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, raw grated squash, carrots, green beans, raw grated sweet potato; younger than 1 year: 50% protein / 50% vegetables protein food daily vegetable food daily turtle pellets every other day; older than 1 year: 25% protein / 75% vegetables protein food 1-2x/week vegetable food daily turtle pellets 2-3x/week
The species
Identity
National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.
Questions & sources
Common questions
How big does it get? It is tiny now.
That coin-sized hatchling becomes a 20 to 30 cm turtle that needs a very large tank, and the females get the biggest.
What equipment do I need?
A big tank, a strong filter, a dry basking platform, a heat lamp and a UV lamp. Filtration is what keeps the water from smelling.
Can I release it in a temple pond if it gets too big?
Please do not. It is one of the world's most invasive turtles and releasing it is both harmful and illegal, so bring it back to us instead.
How long does it live?
Twenty to thirty years, sometimes forty.
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Others in this group
What this sheet states
This sheet states 5 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.
UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 420 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.